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My wife and I just returned from our first, but not our last, trip to Bonaire. What an amazing island.
After seeing gcachon's milky way picture here on Bonaire Talk I knew I had to try to get one also. Up here in Canada there is way too much light polution to get a nice clear picture.
I did my research on sunset and moonrise times as well as the direction of the Milky Way so I would be all set when we got there. I headed out to Willenstoren Lighthouse before sunset and found a spot similar to where gcachon set up for his shot, got all my setting set and waited for dark skys.
Once the sun set it was darker than I had ever experienced before and I was really exited to finally catch the entire arch of the Milky Way. Unfortunately Mother nature did not want me to get a shot as a large cloud bank moved in almost as fast as the sun went down. I waited for 3 hours but the clouds never cleared for more than a couple of seconds and before I knew it the moon was up and my opportunity to shoot the Milky Way was over and I was heading home in the morning.
I'll be back again in February and try again. Maybe I can still shoot part of the Milky Way

Thank you Susan. A lot of usefull information in that article. This is what the milkyway looks like way up north here in Ontario Canada at this time of year. I am really looking forward to trying to capture the milkyway in Februarymilkyway Tobermory.jpg

Full moon was super bright wiped out the milky way last week, so dahhhhhh, shot the moon. Was at Black Durgon and had a great position after the moon cleared the palm trees.
Sigma 150-600 @ 600mm, Nikon D850, ISO 100, 1/180 sec shutter, f16, manual focus (used focus peaking in live view). Very few clouds so had many 30 second gaps to setup and take a few shots. CaptureOne 11 RAW developer. Pushed exposure, contrast, brightness a bit. Crappy old tripod but good enough. Enjoy!!!!!!!!!! Joe.